All 6 Uses of
stifle
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- She's amused at something and she tosses her head back and laughs heartily, without trying to stifle it.†
Chpt 5 *stifle = suppress (prevent something or decrease its development)
- God only knows what's crawling around in there, and I have to bite my lip to stifle a scream.†
Chpt 8
- There's no one around to stifle us.†
Chpt 25
- She stifles a yawn and goes back to gossiping with her friends.†
Chpt 5
- Felicity is still stifling her laughter.†
Chpt 9 *
- The new maid turns away, but I can see her slender shoulders bobbing from her stifled laughter.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom
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(2)
(stifle as in: the heat is stifling) to make breathing difficult or impossible -- often from heat or humidity
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, to stifle is used in the context of anatomy to refer to a four-legged animal's equivalent of the human knee (the joint between the upper and lower leg).